Revolutionizing Multicultural Education Staff Development: Factor Structure of a Teacher Survey

The Relationship Between Cultural Competence and Teacher Efficacy

“…beliefs and dispositions are differentially impacted by individual student characteristics like racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic background. Among this literature, many findings indicated that teachers are poorly prepared to serve students who are ethnically different from the teachers (Bell, 2000;Scott & Anthony, 2001;Sleeter, 2001;Talbert-Johnson, 2006). Other studies have illuminated the low-levels of awareness concerning issues that impact students from diverse backgrounds (Cockrell, Placier, Cockrell, & Middleton, 1999;Dee & Henkin, 2002;Henze, Lucas, & Scott, 1998;Martinez, 2005;Milner, Flower, Moore, Moore, & Flowers, 2003;Moore, 1999;Vogt & McKenna, 2005).…”

“…Qualitatively, the experience of participating in 100 days of diversity professional development versus 150 is not likely to be dramatically different when compared to the difference between 100 and 50 days, or 50 and 1 day of professional development. (Henze, Lucas & Scott 1998;Garcia & Guerra, 2004;Scott & Anthony, 2001).…”